SanDisk today entered the SSD fray with a 32GB drive
of its own. The 1.8" SanDisk
SSD Ultra ATA 5000 drive uses patented TrueFFS flash management technology
and has a 2 million hour MTBF. The drive has no moving parts, so it is
completely silent and weighs less than traditional 1.8" mobile
hard drives. The drive also consumes 0.4W of power when
active, versus 1.0W for a traditional mobile hard drive.

When it comes to performance, the SanDisk SSD Ultra ATA 5000
offers sustained reads of 62MB/sec and can complete random reads at 7300 IOPS
(512-byte file size). The drive can boot Windows Vista Enterprise on
a notebook in 35 seconds and has an average access time of 0.12 ms.

“Once we begin shipping the 32GB SSD for notebook PCs, we
expect to see its increasing adoption in the coming years as we continue to
reduce the cost of flash memory. When these SSD devices become more
affordable, we expect that their superior features over rotating disk drives
will create a new consumer category for our retail sales channels worldwide,”
said SanDisk CEO Eli Harari.

SanDisk leveraged technology from its acquisition of M-Systems
in developing its new SSD drive. SanDisk gained a
wide portfolio of 1.8", 2.5" and 3.5" SSD drives when it acquired M-Systems.

SanDisk’s new SSD Ultra ATA 5000 drive is currently
available to OEMs and is expected to add $600 to the price of a new notebook
computer in the first half of 2007. That figure is expected to drop as the year
progresses.

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Not according to this on Playfuls regarding this drive. I think performance issues are rapidly increasing as the size gets bigger, the die gets smaller, and the power requirements get smaller. These things are getting damn fast which is why the hybrid drives are manufactured by Samsung.

The SanDisk SSD announced today achieves a sustained read rate of 62 megabytes (MB) per second and a random read rate of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transferiii – more than 100 times faster than most hard disk drives. Taking advantage of this performance, a laptop PC equipped with SanDisk SSD can boot Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise in as little as 35 seconds. It also can achieve an average file access rate of 0.12 milliseconds, compared with 55 seconds and 19 milliseconds, respectively, for a laptop PC with a hard disk drive.